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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.

Alan Arkin

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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